I'm currently working on a feature length documentary on depression, approaching the topic as a psychologist, and using my self as a case study. I aiming to refer to a wide range of personal issues, and the various approaches that I have applied on myself over a period of over 30 years. I am still at the early stages of filming and structuring the film.

If you have watched the TEDx talk and find yourself interested in the film and it’s development you can e-mail Sami at: [email protected]

The first four years of my life were mainly in Brazil, then in Lebanon during the civil war. In 1985 I emigrated to Ireland and enrolled in Trinity College Dublin. In 1994 I graduated with three Masters in Psychology. As a counselling psychologist (therapist), I worked for four and a half years years in the area of sexual abuse; adults who have been abused in childhood, and adolescents who have abused younger children. Then I worked with refugees, most of whom have been tortured in their country of origin. My last official psychology position was working in nine different inner city Dublin schools - that was in the summer of 2003.